Minimally invasive surgery now offers many patients decreased blood loss, smaller incisions and quicker recovery. Advantages of laparoscopic and robotic surgery especially benefit patients undergoing surgery on the kidney, ureter or adrenal gland, since ...

Techniques in nipple tattooing are rapidly improving and give patients reconstructive options that were previously not available. In most cases, tattooing is performed three months after the nipple has been surgically created on the reconstructed breast to ...

There is probably no imaging study that is more controversial in the care of patients who have breast cancer or other breast problems than breast MRI, which has been around for 30 years. This imaging study is more sensitive than mammography and detects t...

Breast implants have undergone a large number of revisions since their first release in the 1970s. The two currently available implants are saline implants and silicone implants. The implants used for breast reconstruction after a mastectomy are t...

As chief of plastic and reconstructive surgery at Fox Chase Cancer Center, I meet many patients who are about to have a mastectomy and have lots of questions. They want to understand their breast reconstruction options so they can decide which is best for t...

The recent work of The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) showing the underlying genetic changes for kidney cancer is groundbreaking, and it will lead to major progress in kidney cancer treatment (see related blog). But another exciting new therapy is already av...